SOUTH African pet lovers have started an air bridge for cats and dogs caught up in the violence in neighbouring Zimbabwe. Spurred by television footage in April of farm pets being beaten to death or maimed by war veterans invading white-owned farms, the Johannesburg-based Wet Nose Animal Rescue Centre stepped in. The centre’s spokeswoman, Elmine […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Thursday 1.45pm. SACKED South African cricket captain Hansie Cronje told the King Commission into match-fixing that former Indian captain Mohammed Azharuddin introduced him to a bookmaker who offered him money for losing a Test in 1996. Cronje said Azharuddin arranged a meeting with the bookmaker known as MK in at […]
FORMER Indian captain Mohammad Azharuddin has denied claims by Hansie Cronje that he introduced the disgraced South African skipper to a bookie who offered money to throw a 1996 Test match. “It’s all rubbish. Cronje has no credibilty left with him. I don’t know the person he is talking about,” Azharuddin said. “I will be […]
DAVID SHAPSHAK, Cape Town | Thursday 11.00am. DISGRACED cricket captain Hansie Cronje has admitted he was first approached by bookmakers in 1995 and took his first cash payment on the tour to India in 1996, but denied he ever threw a match or influenced the outcome. A humble Cronje dropped numerous bombshells admitting that during […]
FORMER two-time junior lightweight world champion Brian Mitchell has moved up in weight and will be taking on former heavyweight world title contender Pierre Coetzer on Friday. Most pundits give Mitchell the edge of pulling off a win over the bigger and heavier Coetzer. The two popular ex-boxers will however not be donning gloves for […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Wednesday 5.00pm. THE Springboks will be without the services of prop Cobus Visagie when they take on England in the first of two Tests at Loftus in Pretoria on Saturday. Visagie is carrying a rib cartilage injury and has been sidelined to avoid aggravating the injury. Sarfu media liason Alex […]
WORLD Cup qualifiers being played in Africa this weekend. Group A At Luanda: Angola v Zambia At Tripoli: Libya v Cameroon Bye: Togo Group B At Lagos: Nigeria v Sierra Leone At Omdurman: Sudan v Liberia Bye: Ghana Group C At Annaba: Algeria v Senegal At Windhoek: Namibia v Morocco Bye: Egypt Group D At […]
The dominance of black athletes is one of the most explosive issues in modern sport. Everyone is aware of it, but no one mentions it. Now, a controversial new book attempts to wrestle with the most taboo subject in world sport Andrew Anthony At the Olympics in September there will be few racing certainties. The […]
again Tony Harrison CRICKET Allan Donald, arguably the fastest white bowler in the world, can’t wait to get back to action for his English county side Warwickshire. The South African pace ace is recovering from an accident at Hove when he fell backwards on to an advertising board while attempting to make a catch off […]
Ivor Powell went in search of some of the ogres of the past to find out what they’re up to in the new South Africa The extension of amnesty to “superspy” Craig Williamson for the remote- controlled murders of Ruth First, Jeanette Schoon and her daughter Katryn, put into sharp focus the extent to which […]